Tag: cover
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RC 369: Clownbusting (Hardcore Heatwave)
Hardcore you know the score – the heatwave is here and BoJo the Clown is finally busted. I would say PARTY TIME at No. 10 but there’s a clown car of other fools on the way in the Silly Season that’s lasted , ooh, 6 years now…. Brought to you by the letter C, this…
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Brandi Carlile covers Pat Benatar
Going through CoverMeSongs Covers of 2021, and this one by Brandi Carlile hit me like a brick. Covering 80’s classics like Pat Benatar is a major plus from me, but when you realise these were rescheduled shows from 2020 that the lockdown delayed, the message of “We Belong’ gets a whole new meaning. I’m no…
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Have A Cigar – Pink Floyd Main Squeeze cover
Roger Waters was obviously having a bit of a ‘mare after the record-beating success of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, dealing with expectation of a follow up (the Tusk effect) and the music industry. ‘Have A Cigar’ is a biting criticism of the music industry, most definitely biting the hand that feed –…
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RC 353: Uncover Me aka Lost In The Summer Wine
Lost to the Summer wind., uncovered by podcast archaelogists, on the last day of Summer (well practically everyone knows September is back to school/back to Winter not summer) here is a lost podcast recorded in early August before I decided to run away into the sunset and paint the coast. (the image is one I…
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Somewhere over the virus
This COVID-19 version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow got me tearful… well it’s that kind of song anyway but as an extra three weeks of lockdown is announced I long for things to go back to some semblance of normality, if they ever. (via Phoebe Howie)
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Du HAST HAPPY
Love this happy version of Rammstein’s Du Hast from the Melodicka Bros. It goes from a brooding metal/industrial track to something more like Walking on Sunshine, 99 Balloons or something from a John Hughes film. BTW I didn’t know the original german song which sounds so evil is actually about not wanting to marry a…